Part 5 - Different roads to a 2050 alternative meat future      (9 minutes)

Guests from the episode each describe their vision of an alternative meat future and talk about the role of public and private investment in making that a reality.

Speakers

Jan Dutkiewicz is a visiting fellow at Harvard La and has published or is forthcoming in journals including Lancet Planetary Health, Nature-Food, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Food Ethics. He has written about the politics and environmental impacts of food production and novel food technologies for publications including WIRED, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Wall Street.

Isha Datar is the executive director of New Harvest. You can watch her Ted talk which has over 2.2 million views.

Paul Shapiro is the CEO of The Better Meat Co., the author of the national bestseller Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, a five-time TEDx speaker, and the host of the Business for Good Podcast.

Steve Jurvetson is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of Future Ventures, whose investment portfolio includes SpaceX, Tesla, Skype and Upside foods.

Resources

Cultured Meat Needs a Race to Mission, Not a Race to Market (Dwayne Holmes et al., 2022)

JBS to acquire cultivated meat company in $100m investment (Ag Funder News, 2021)